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Small but powerful - Robert Gottliebsen
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Ceramic Fuel Cells has developed a small $6,000 home generator that has an 85 per cent power/heat conversion rate. A normal large power station has a 40 per cent power conversion rate. Ceramic’s high conversion figures have fascinated a whole range of European and Japanese power utilities who can see that the units can slash greenhouse emissions and halve the amount of gas required to generate home/office electricity and heating. And as the energy is produced in the home or office there is no transmission waste, although surplus electricity can be sold back to the grid.
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http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Small-but-powerful-pd20090414-R3S8F?OpenDocument&src=srch

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    • dysviz dysviz
      4 months ago


      but you still need to manufacture hydrogen to run a fuel stack, and that's not cheap, nor efficient.
      It takes a lot of solar power, or grid power, to break the water bond to generate it, more than you get back..
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      • meika meika
        4 months ago


        they use natural gas, coal seam gas, etc as fuel, this is burnt heating (for example) a central heating unit and uses a ceramic catalyst/substrate to capture electricity from the reaction
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